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Plot[]

Part One: The corner shop has to put special offers on due to low sales. Lucille makes her hasty exit from No.9 to allow an annoyed Ken to question Val about her supposed plan to open men's barber shop without discussing it with him. Mrs Kenny turns up to discuss buying the shop and Irma tries to convince her that people like Elsie purchase a large number of items. Ken is horrified by the prospect of people gossiping about a stream of men turning up at their house. An amused Val says nothing to correct him. He demands she throw the sundries out. Dennis and Jenny enjoy winding up Elsie as she watches television. They end up driving her out to the Rovers to get some peace but Lucille walks in with the sundries soon afterwards, getting rid of them on Val's orders. Mrs Kenny wants to talk over the shop with her husband before making a decision as they have their eye on a better one. Jerry puts in the tender without letting an angry Len see it. Ronald Wilde summons Jerry who goes to see him without telling a furious Len where he's going.


Part Two: Minnie tells Irma that no one is buying the shop because of the slum clearances. Taken aback, Irma and Lucille think she may have a point. Mr Wilde thinks Fairclough and Booth are too small-scale and their figure of £180 a unit on the maisonettes is too low, but nevertheless he gives them the contract as Jerry's sincerity impresses him. He warns him the work is starting almost immediately. Elsie can't understand Jenny's interest in her son, but the first chink of warmth starts to develop between the two women. Bulldozers begin work on the maisonettes' site. David puts the sale in the hands of estate agent D.M. White as he's failed to handle the matter on his own. Len looks over the tender and explodes that it's too low. Jerry knows they'll make no money out of it but is thinking of the future. Len doesn't want to expand; he likes things the way they are. Jerry tells him he'll take the contract on himself.

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